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In the face of much concern about some aspects of the draft Early Years Foundation Stage, welcome news came this week that the Department for Education and Skills is proposing to put back the...
Children's listening and speaking skills could be boosted if local authorities invested in radio at a cost of about 1 a year per child, according to Susan Stranks, director of Children 2000, which...
The General Teaching Council (GTC) in Scotland has launched a last-ditch protest against the Scottish Executive's decision to phase out a legal requirement for local authorities to have a qualified...
The Pre-School Learning Alliance is calling for an 'independent monitoring function' to ensure local authorities work in partnership with voluntary and private childcare providers. PLA chief executive...
Local authorities may have received news of the allocations they will receive to fund places for disadvantaged two-year-olds in 2013-14, but providers remain in the dark about how much of the rate...
Some interesting issues are raised by the guidance on developing children's centres which has just been published by the Sure Start unit (see News, page 4). Not least is the expectation that more than...
25 January Enabling pupils with speech and language difficulties to achieve through the National Literacy Strategy at Key Stages 1, 2 and 3 A day course by I CAN for childcare professionals working...
Children's minister Tim Loughton has written to all local authorities in England to ensure that foster carers are not faced with too many restrictions when making everyday decisions about the children...
'As is often claimed - not least by the Tories - the (Labour) party appears to have stolen many of the right's best ideas. Tough on the basics, tough on local authorities, tough on failing schools,...
'What sort of country are we that pays the people who look after our children at this most delicate and important stage 7,000 a year? We must as a Government do something to raise the level of...